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One corporate media outlet in particular took the brunt of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s ire after their “sh*tty take” on the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.

Days after the predawn attack in Manhattan left Brian Thompson fatally wounded outside the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, verbal assaults on the health insurance industry continued while an official motive remained undeclared. Even after backlash for those seemingly celebrating the death of a father and husband, New York Magazine piled on with their own “inevitable” claim prompting a takedown from the Democratic Party lawmaker.

“No shortage of sh*tty takes on the 2024 election or on this assassination,” the senator posted Saturday from his official X account. The public execution of an innocent man and father of two is indefensible, not ‘inevitable.’ Condoning and cheering this on says more about YOU that the situation of health insurance.”

Leaving no mystery as to what outlet he was calling out, Fetterman shared a screenshot of the New York Magazine article titled, “The Shooting That Was Inevitable: Our political system is breaking down. Now it has killed.”

The story began, “Christopher McNaughton needed care for his ulcerative colitis, which had already caused him to develop arthritis, diarrhea, fatigue, and blood clots that could kill him. The disease was one problem; his insurance company, UnitedHealthcare, soon proved to be another.”

Detailing the individual’s nearly $2 million annual medical bills that had been flagged for review, the insurance company was said to have deemed the drug cocktail that “brought McNaughton’s disease under control” as “not medically necessary,” prompting a lawsuit from his family.

Of course, the magazine was not alone in cheering on the bloodshed as it had been reported that Taylor Lorenz, formerly of the Washington Post, had taken to the latest leftist echo chamber Bluesky with reaction to a report on anesthesia coverage, “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”

She’d gone on to tell Fox News Digital that she had been using “the royal we” and, “That said, healthcare executives absolutely want people dead as long as it helps their bottom line and that’s the entire problem. My sympathies are with the innocent people who have died or suffered after being denied coverage by greedy insurance companies.”

Lorenz further wrote, “People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the [people] in power who enable it.”

By Sunday morning, Fetterman’s post had garnered nearly 3 million views with many reactions lauding the senator for drawing attention to the coverage while others continued to agree with the sentiment.

Meanwhile, after having recovered a bag in Central Park believed to have belonged to the suspect wanted for the murder of Thompson, detailed the words “deny,” “depose” and “defend” engraved on recovered shell casings, and having laid out the route that was taken to flee the crime scene and, presumably, New York City, the NYPD released additional photos overnight as they continued to offer $10,000 for information that could lead to an arrest and conviction along with the FBI’s offer of $50,000.

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